I'm sure it's only a matter of time!

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@@ElementalMaker can you do this with the aluminum oxide that comes from a gallium and aluminum reaction?. When you put Alga And to water it creates hydrogen gas and the aluminum oxidizes separating from the gallium. The aluminum oxide is pure as far as my knowledge goes and I was wondering if that. would work in this same method?

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I sure hope so! I truly appreciate you mentioning me in the same breath as those guys, love all their stuff and consider that an honor. Welcome aboard!

His voice is almost as deep at nerdrage without the voice changer

i was thinking the exact same daniel

@@ElementalMaker I was convinced it was AvE using a voice changer.

Lo Siento Mis Amigos, no AVE here.

Wouldn't be the first time!

You have sports socks? I didn't realize there were different kinds of socks. I guess that would explain the different lengths and colors.

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Great advice. I also thought about bath, shower with you.😂👍

Damn I wish I knew that earlier. I'm going to give it a go with what I made here, but if it turns out like crap I'll give the process you outlined a go. I am going to give my aluminum oxide a few more washes before attempting to make ruby.

@@ElementalMaker What you have will be good enough for your first experiments. In fact, they use aluminum oxide made by the sodium hydroxide method for industrial grade ruby which doesn't need to be transparent. Things like bearings for example have synthetic ruby roller pins that will never see the light of day. If you have any questions at all I have done an extensive amount of research and experimentation. A great starting point on your Al2O3 to Cr2O3 ratio is 95:5 by weight. Anywhere between 1% to 8% Cr2O3 is used for synthetic ruby, but the most common percentages are between 3% to 5%. You can get an idea of what part of the flame is optimal for fusing the doped alumina by shaping a cone or pyramid of oxide feed material and bring the flame down onto the tip to see where it melts. Ideally you'll want about 3200 Celsius to initially melt the feed material as it passes through the center of the flame if you are using the Verveuil method. Alumina melts at 2070 Celsius, but you'll want the surface of the boule to be resting in the 2200 Celsius gradient of the flame for more precise crystal formation. Also, mix your chromium (III) oxide and alumina in a plastic cup, preferably with a magnetic stir. It doesn't require heat for mixing but you WILL need a very homogenous mixture as the chromium beads up into lumps at the microscopic level and you'll see blotchy red and green dots among the more homogenous reddish color of the overall ruby. I emphasize the point on using plastic because aluminum oxide will severely etch the inside of your beaker/glassware for any level of stiring. Plastic cups from the craft store made for mixing resins are perfect for this work because the plastic is HDPE, so you are very unlikely to contami ate your oxide feed. If you decide to get into attempting to make sapphire, you will hate life for the first three or four attempts. Info found in various patents is purposely misleading to keep company proprietary information secret. Finding exact concise info on the the subject is not a trivial and average day on the net. Only a handful of successful companies exist in this world by keeping their composition recipes and procedure under tight security lock and key. If you happen to be pushed into contact with someone like Djeva, they flat out tell you it is good to see you taking an interest into the gem making world, but then they try to break your momentum by telling you there is so much more involved than the chemistry alone and they are sorry they cannot assist snore beyond that level of detail as they need to keep their trade secrets. I totally get that because we would all do that with competitive businesses to run. They also abruptly cease all communication when you completely understand their concern and was only looking for an encouraging thumbs up to ley me know I was on the correct path I've been following on my own. I told them how easy rubies are made, everything I've done to get very pure starting material including the most common industrial way of decomposing pure heated aluminum in an inert atmosphere which then has pure chlorine gas added to, the furnace chamber with the isolated aluminum to react vigorously with the chlorine vapor. A later introduces pure ammonia gas into the apparatus to makr highly pure Al2OH3 as all other by products are gasses and ammonium chloride salt which is very easy to separate from the oxide feed. I have a shit ton more to tell you to help you on your way. You are the fourth person whom had come to me to learn what I taught myself. Sapphire is no lie. It is a pain in the are to get the desired color, but yay for you I figured out the chemistry a while back. It is tricky fo create, mix and heat just to do that part right. Furnace conditions and timing is critical or you get common grey sapphire.--a well documented problem.

Where are you getting the chromium?

@@TheLightningStalker I have a couple lbs of chromium (III) oxide from a pottery supply seller on eBay. I also have elemental chromium I bought from a Chinese seller.

Hi, tnx 4sharing, but how can we calcinate it? Pls could you tell us?

Your the man Shane! Thanks so much for supporting my channel!

Ah sorry about that Ryan! Glad your enjoying the videos 👍

@@ElementalMaker good entertainment especially when on i94/90 in Chicago

Thanks for the kind words. I'll keep the good stuff coming 👍

You think he owns all of science? This video is his; the process he used is not. Anybody can do this and make a video of it. They didn’t take this exact video, they made their own that followed it. If people had to do a different experiment with every video, then we would run out of projects. And I don’t see you crying on every other video that has duplicated themes from other youtubers. The other guy did nothing wrong.

Nice! It should make for a cool project!

@@ElementalMaker hello sir

That's the main difference as to why your method had less carbon. The carbon is actually from the thin plastic coating that lines the inside of soda cans to protect the aluminum from reacting with the liquid contents. This lining protects the flavor of the drink and the structural integrity of the can. By continuously heating and prolonging the smelting process the lighter carbon from the plastic has more time rise to the surface and be removed as slag while small amounts boil off as CO2 gas.

@@PGIFilms but that wastes alot of heat and therefore more money than just using a filter like this guy did

@@Cockalicious’d really only worry about the money spent on heating if you were doing this on an industrial scale

Yep, that's fair. We're pretty special here in the US LOL

@@ElementalMaker well it was a yank that named it so...

Yeah I realized I missed that in editing and added a text box in the video

Was that the carbon left over from the vacuum?

I know this is a very old post but something I noticed the other day. When dissolving soda can tabs in hcl my solution stayed clear, unlike when I used scrap aluminum. I was actually shocked as I had already prepared the filter. It made the process far less tedious.

Yeah the inside of cans are coated with an BPA based enamel if I remember correctly. Ill have to test that, but per wikipedia: "The aluminium used in United States and Canada are alloys containing 92.5% to 97% aluminium,

I hope that you succeed in finding a good source for what you need, it is quite an interesting project to follow :-) Big thumbs up !!

I think it might take just a bit more to make then just blowing some nitrogen in there, but damn that's some cool stuff. Honestly haven't heard or it before, but wow those are some very impressive material properties.

Ammonia love making complexes Maybe you got some weird stuff

I did that kind experiment, and when I put in regular glass containers with sodium hydroxide, the glass was growing inside

I'll be honest, it was mostly my wife rushing me for dinner LOL

I like it!

@@ElementalMaker Well, that was a snappy enough reply I guess I'll put off bugging anyone else about it!

@@drcaiius lmao! I still need to figure out how to get my purity higher from the cans, I think there is a bit too much Mg content for rubies, but I'm pretty sure I have a method around that

@@ElementalMaker I look forward to whatever you come up with!

Sounds like a fun project! Enjoy Robert. Check out my video on making a synthetic ruby, the back of them is quite rough with the melted aluminum oxide, bet it would make a great file.

In the case of making resin look like metal, your going to want to get bright aluminum powder, not aluminum oxide (aluminum oxide is white). Bright flake aluminum powder will make your resin look like shiny metal. Certain mica powders may also work to do the same thing

@@ElementalMaker Thank you for this information. I was wondering if I had ordered the right stuff. Have you recorded the video of the stone yet? I'm looking forward to that video since I already have part of what I need on hand.

That’s probably not carbon but iron contamination. It just takes a minute amount of iron to cause that. If the filtered solution is pink add the Na2CO3 and digest the solution at near boiling for about 10-15 minutes. That should precipitate any left over impurities. Filter it while still hot, then let cool before precipitating.

Man thats some scary stuff when powdered! Cant believe you were able to mill it without issues!

Great suggestion. I may have to grab a pure chunk of pure aluminum off eBay and make up some reagent grade HCl. I did actually talk about just converting the Aluminum Chloride directly during filming, but edited that part out. I may give that a go next round if this batch is too impure.

Yessir, I've never had an issue adding water to acid. Codyslab did a video way back when, and didn't even get a violent reaction when adding water to reagent grade sulfuric.

I doubt there’s any carbon at all. The black precipitate gathered after filtration is probably iron contamination. Given the black color it’s probably ferric hydroxide hydrate. Most, if not all, of the carbon on an aluminum can will be oxidized as CO2 when the aluminum was melted.

Turns out I might have produced Hcl vapors. Hcl has a low ebullition point (48°C), so if the reaction goes too fast and too hot, Hcl will probably be one of the first thing to vaporize.

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You are damn right, I made that years ago and its quite an unholy solution. LOL

Nice! Worth giving it a shot!

Yes you can..add titanium .37 oxide iron 1 oxide aluminium upto fill 100cc.-

That's what I thought as well, but I found an article stating that the top and bottom of an aluminum can are of a different alloy. Given that it is a single drawn piece though, I think you are right. Just the can top is probably the different alloy.

This won't work for flash powder, it's already fully oxidized.

Add a contaminant to your aluminum oxyde, like 5% chrome oxyde and heat it really high. NightHawkInLight as 2 videos on this, using arc wielder or a microwave. Guess who work the best :P

​@@Technicotop Thank you, brother. Does the thermite reaction succeed in the process?

@@user-google777 Don't know, probably hard to handle. Even the arc wielder is not a that good solution as it adds carbon to the ruby.

That might be what they use in nano-ceramic waxes that are all the rage now adays, but this stuff is way too coarse, and would wreck a cars paint. Aluminum oxide like this is more suited to be used for sandpaper or abrasive paste.

The cans I used were melted whole, so much of the carbon from the inner enamel liner and label was likely entombed in molten aluminum.

Very cool idea, but unfortunately the iron concentration is so incredibly low it would be like trying to extract iron from your blood with a magnet. Technically it's possible, but I'd just need a very strong magnet

I dont think the magnesium would cause the color there, but its almost certainly an impurity in my Al2O3. I may have worded that a bit shittily in the video.

Thank you! Very cool to know I have viewers in South Africa!